Max HenryFounder & Executive Director, Global Supply Chain Council (GSCC) · Founder & Executive Director at Global Supply Chain Council (GSCC)

Global Supply Chain Disruptions: Red Sea Attacks & Suez Canal Blockage #shorts

14 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this short commentary, the speaker links three major maritime disruptions—the November 2023 Red Sea attacks by Houthi rebels, the March 2021 Suez Canal blockage caused by the Ever Given, and early‑2000s Somali piracy—to the broader concepts of value‑chain mapping and supplier‑tier mapping. By highlighting that each event directly impacted the shipping segment of global supply chains, the speaker argues that such disruptions should be explicitly incorporated into value‑chain analyses and tier‑level risk assessments to better anticipate and mitigate future interruptions.

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But what we experience right now when we see the value chain mapping, also what Nita said about the supplier tiers mapping, also we found out that when, when the global disruption, for example, in November 2023, there is a disruption for Red Sea attack by Houthi rebels, right? And then before that, we have March in 2021, Suez Canal blocked by Evergreen— Ever Given, I'm sorry. And then before that also, there is a piracy early in 2000, there is a piracy in Somali waters. So what we conclude from these disruptions that this happened in one of the value chains mapping, right, the shipping, the vessel shipping.